Tyehimba Jess's Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, Olio (2016), presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, work songs, and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess’s much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them. Tyehimba Jess’s first book of poetry, leadbelly, was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.” Olio, his second collection, was published by Wave Books in 2016 and received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Presented by the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program.

Learn more at blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

When: January 31, 2019, 6-7:30p
Where: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

Arts Walk

Sunday, September 16 at 10 AM – 4 PM

This unique, free event will feature the work of 20+ artists, including several cooperative groups, and will include a peek into artists' studios, yards, garages, alleys and porches....in Pullman, everywhere is a gallery space! Artists include painters, ceramics, film, music, glass, photography, performance, sculpture, fiber arts, random alley art and more. To pick up your map for the walk, visit us on the day of the walk at our PullmanArts display at 11137-49 S. Langley Ave.

Ever since George Pullman brought artists and skilled craftspeople from all over the world to work on the construction of the town of Pullman and his Pullman Palace Cars, luxury rail travel & private train cars, in the late 1800's, artists have been drawn to historic Pullman to live and work. Architect Solon S. Beman designed every historic house & public building in Pullman, which are works of art themselves. Pullman is now a National Monument, do not be surprised if you see park rangers in uniform!

Free street parking throughout the neighborhood. Exit I-94 at Exit 66A, West on 111th St, left on Langley. Metra Electric trains from Millennium Station to 111th St. – flag stop.

For eats:
The Pullman Cafe will be open from 10am -3pm. 
Cal Harbor will be open 6am - 3pm.
The Pier at Harborside Golf Course is open if golfers are golfing.
Potbelly @ 111th & Doty will be open 10am -9pm

​PullmanArts
11111 S Forrestville Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60628

April 12 - May 4, 2018
Reception: April 14, 1 - 3p
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Pantone: Little Boy Blue invites all artists to create works of art that are predominantly the color, Little Boy Blue. This open call welcomes artists of all levels and mediums. This exhibit is a fundraiser for the gallery and an opportunity to bring together artists who have and have not shown at USG. The exact color was selected through online vote based on colors from the Pantone Spring Color Forecast. You can visit Pantone’s website for more information. The name of the color is Little Boy Blue, which will produce four swatches. Pantone 16-4132 TCX is the exact one we are sharing the RGB information on, which is 110 162 213. We know everyone’s screens are slightly different and not all calibrated the same. Please try to be as close to the selected color as possible.

You work should be predominantly this color. That statement is up for interpretation, but we have some suggestions. If you have a large focal point, you could make it Little Boy Blue. You could use values of Little Boy Blue for an entire work. This color needs to stand out in your work. Click HERE to see a promo with the color. ​

Union Street Gallery
1527 Otto Blvd, Chicago Heights, IL 60411
unionstreetgallery.org

This juried art competition features student artwork from Oakton as well as the College of Lake County, Elgin Community College, McHenry County College, Moraine Valley Community College, Morton College, Prairie State College, and Waubonsee Community College. The exhibition showcases a wide variety of media, including paintings, prints, photographs, ceramics and digital art.
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Public Reception: Sunday, March 25, 5 - 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 25, 2018 1–3p
Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College

August 21 there will be a solar eclipse. You can watch a live stream from NASA.

View the eclipse safely, do not look directly into the sun or even point your camera at it.

There's an app for that, here are just a few:

• NASA app by NASA
• Smithsonian Eclipse 2017 by Smithsonian
•  Total Solar Eclipse by Exploratorium